67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 14503)
Orbital period : 6.42 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Sep 25 09h01 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 12.4 Aperture radius used for m1 0.52 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.4 Aperture radius used for m2 5.2 " Tail position angle
(PA) 310 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.349 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.793 AU Right ascension 09 09 33.83 h m s Declination +20 36 13.9 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.09.25 11:51:34
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0067P C2015 09 25.37581 09 09 33.83 +20 36 13.9 14.4 N W96
0067P C2015 09 25.38409 09 09 35.35 +20 36 09.3 14.4 N W96
0067P C2015 09 25.38849 09 09 36.23 +20 36 06.7 14.4 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 3x3 Mount Paramount Exposure details 10x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (http://www.spaceobs.com/fr/) Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.04 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-dark, /flat, add), Iris (gradient, levels, ddp, crop) Remarks or comments Tracking rates set on comet orbital elements. Observation submission date 2015 Sep 25 12h21m58s Observation modification date 2015 Oct 09 23h47m40s